[Info-vax] macOS Terminal app. Numeric keypad fails for EDT.

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 4:34:55 PM UTC-4, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2022-09-23 21:16, Michael Moroney wrote: 
> > On 9/22/2022 5:06 PM, alanfe... at gmail.com wrote: 
> >> The only problem I have with Terminal is that using EDT in full-screen 
> >> mode wipes out part of the history buffer (not the commands, but 
> >> screen output). 
> > 
> > I noticed something like that with iterm2, not elsewhere, I'll look at 
> > EDT to see what's up.
> Not sure what you are referring to. EDT clears the screen in order to 
> draw whatever it wants to show there. So of course, whatever else was 
> there before is gone. 
> 
> Or are you referring to something else? 
> 
> Johnny

Say I run SHOW SYSTEM on EISNER. It's like a hundred-something lines. Say it's 160 lines. I run EDT. It clears the screen, brings up the file, I do my edits, and exit. Now I page-up to review the SHOW SYSTEM output, and the l last 30 or 40 or whatever lines are gone. If I had instead run, say, SH DEV DS, I get what,10 lines of output? Then I do a full-screen editing session. Then I page-up to see the SH DEV DS output again, and it's gone. Older stuff is still there, but the last n lines of what was there before I edited something is gone for good. Maybe you never do the page-up bit to see previous commands and their outputs.

Alan.